Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb3985afb2ae8556…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 65ac60b15243f2214e972bc6931e32f6 SHA-1: 567e9dbbff3320835874f9bf835454b24bf13879 SHA-256: bb3985afb2ae8556ad840c0ee35eed6d0ac10c0425bf56d0a16786204d4d3025
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it is a Qbot variant designed to act as a dropper. As an Excel document, it likely relies on macro execution or a vulnerability to download and execute a secondary payload. The SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0